Re: YAML 1.2 Draft 2008-05-11

Does anyone actually take care of yaml.org? I'd like to have my YamlBeans
project listed on there but have gotten no response about it on this list,
nor by contacting Oren Ben-Kiki directly. Is YAML dead or what?

-Nate


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Brad Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It appears that
>     http://dev.yaml.org/ypaste
> is not available (browser spins), but
>     http://yaml.org/ypaste
> is available.
>
> The link to ypaste at http://yaml.org points to the dev address.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brad
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Oren Ben-Kiki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is released, go to http://yaml.org and grab a fresh copy!
>> This is accompanied by YamlReference-0.9.2 which has, as usual, been
>> uploaded to http://dev.yaml.org/ypaste - so have fun playing with it.
>>
>> YAML 1.1 will be used to describe the more than one-year-old spec.
>>
>> YAML 1.2 will be used to describe the new spec, which includes the
>> JSON compatibility stuff.
>>
>> YAML 1.2 is _almost_ backward compatible with YAML 1.1:
>> - It allows omitting the space after the colon for quoted keys
>> ({"a":"b"}, which is backward compatible
>> - It *disallows* non-ASCII line feeds, which is not; however this is
>> not a problem in practice.
>>
>> The new draft includes a new section that describes three recommended
>> schemas:
>> - The "failsafe" schema; it is guaranteed to work but doesn't allow
>> you to do much.
>> - The "JSON" schema; it allows for JSON types and _only_ JSON types;
>> - The "Core" schema; it allows for JSON types, but with a more
>> relaxed, human-readable notation (e.g., integers may be specified in
>> hexadecimal, etc.)
>>
>> We have used this opportunity to simplify the formats (e.g., integers
>> no longer allow '_'  to separate digits, etc.)
>>
>> We have an *open issue* with regard to null values (in the "Core" schema).
>> - Should we still allow the '~' value to stand for a null?
>> (Currently the spec says yes, but we want to know if people are using
>> it in practice).
>>
>> Note that an empty value stands for the empty string (in the "Core"
>> schema). So, currently:
>>
>>    ---
>>    empty string:
>>    a null value: null
>>    null shorthand: ~
>>    ...
>>
>>
>> We have a one-time chance to change this, if we want to.
>>
>> Comments, opinions, language fixes, bug fixes, complaints, etc. are all
>> welcome!
>>
>> Share & Enjoy,
>>
>>    Oren Ben-Kiki
>>
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